Miami drug wars

The Miami drug wars was a series of wars between rival gangs and law enforcement agencies on the streets of Miami, Florida in the United States that occurred in the 1980s. The majority of the drug traffickers were Colombians, and the Miami-Dade County morgue said that Colombians were like Dixie cups, as "you used them once, then threw them away". So many Colombians died that the government had to rent refrigeration trucks to store the bodies while the morgues processed scores of dead criminals, and the drug wars saw violence on every street corner, whether it was between rival gangs, or between gangs and the Drug Enforcement Administration or police. Most of the drugs came in through the Port of Miami, where the DEA may have been able to bust sixty kilograms of cocaine while six hundred more were successfully smuggled in. The rich and famous of Miami abused these drugs, and Miami was plagued by violence until the end of the 1980s, when President George H.W. Bush's crusade against drugs with millions of dollars would eventually end the violence.